TheftPatrol vs Elo GPS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheftPatrol
Monitor your vehicle's location in real-time and access historical data. Set up custom alerts for specific events and receive notifications directly to your device. Stay informed about your vehicle's whereabouts with continuous location tracking.
- Real-time vehicle location tracking
- Historical location data
- Configurable alerts
- Continuous location transmission
- Package plan feature variations
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The Theft Patrol SVR app for iOS allows you to view the last known and historical locations of your Theft Patrol SVR device equipped vehicle as well as configure and set multiple alerts. No need to wait for the app to locate your vehicle, our SVR devices are always transmitting location data at 5 minute intervals during vehicle movement. Features may vary based on package plan purchased.
Elo GPS
Enhance your vehicle's safety and connectivity with real-time location tracking, geofencing alerts, and stolen vehicle recovery support. Monitor fuel and battery levels, receive smart alerts for detected issues, and easily locate your parked car. Ideal for tracking teen drivers.
- Real-time vehicle location tracking
- Custom geofencing alerts
- 24/7 stolen vehicle recovery support
- Fuel and battery level monitoring
- Smart alerts for vehicle issues
- Locate parked car feature
- Teen driver monitoring
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Elo GPS keeps your car smarter, safer, and more connected. Get peace of mind knowing where and how your vehicle is being driven and that your loved ones and investment are protected with stolen vehicle recovery support. - See your car’s location in real-time to make sure it’s where it’s supposed to be and set custom virtual boundaries to be alerted if your vehicle enters or exits a designated area. - Our Nationwide 24/7 Stolen Vehicle Recovery Hotline gives you access to our dedicated team of trained recovery specialists to navigate through the reporting and recovery process and coordinate with law enforcement. - Check the fuel and battery levels of your vehicle from your phone so you’re never caught off guard. Plus, you can enable Smart Alerts to be notified of detected issues. - Forgot where you parked? Skip the annoyance of walking around a parking lot looking for your car and fumbling with the alarm. With Elo GPS you can locate it in seconds. - For Teen Drivers, monitor exactly where your teen took your car, how fast they are going, and even set geofences to be alerted when the vehicle enters or exits a virtual perimeter Let Elo GPS worry about keeping your car safe, so you don't have to
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Verdict
TheftPatrol and Elo GPS are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.2 for TheftPatrol against 2.2 for Elo GPS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 237 and 155 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 18% of TheftPatrol's written reviews are positive against 12% of Elo GPS's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheftPatrol | Elo GPS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (237 ratings) | 2.2 (155 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews — better | 11.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 237 — better | 155 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TheftPatrol LLC | Procon Analytics, LLC |
Customer experience
TheftPatrol
Elo GPS
User reviews
TheftPatrol
From 237 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎯 Successfully recovered stolen vehicles
- 👨👧👦 Useful for monitoring teenage drivers
- 🗺️ Helpful for locating parked vehicles
- 💰 Insurance discount potential
- 📱 User-friendly interface when working
Room to improve
- 🐢 Significant delays in location updates (30 mins to hours)
- 📍 Inaccurate GPS tracking and wrong locations
- 🔔 Unreliable or missing notifications
- ❌ Frequent app freezes and crashes
- 🔄 Inconsistent performance with sporadic updates
Elo GPS
From 155 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Peace of mind for theft recovery
- 👍 Geofencing for arrival/departure alerts
- 👍 Speed alerts for monitoring
- 👍 Check engine light notifications
- 👍 Insurance discount potential
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate real-time location
- 🐛 Delayed notifications (movement, alerts)
- 🐛 App glitches and crashes
- 🐛 Poor map data/outdated maps
- 🐛 Unreliable battery voltage alerts
Bugs and requests
TheftPatrol
Reported bugs
12 issues- App freezes for days or weeks
- Location stuck on old position for extended periods
- Notifications delayed by hours or days
- False movement alerts when vehicle is parked
- Map fails to load properly
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- Odometer reading incorrect or shows zero
- App crashes on startup or during use
- Device not syncing with system
- Inconsistent trip logging and mileage tracking
- Account lockout with expired subscription messages
- Login issues with wrong user information displayed
- Heartbeat notifications appearing randomly
Requested features
9 requests- Real-time location updates instead of delayed tracking
- Push notifications to phone home screen
- Sound/audio alerts for vehicle movement
- Improved app performance and modernized codebase
- Better integration with newer device types
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- Option to remove tracking device from vehicle
- Eliminate mandatory terms acceptance on each login
- Accurate odometer reading in app
- Improved map loading and trip visualization
Elo GPS
Reported bugs
79 issues- App doesn't work
- Location is hours delayed
- Notifications are late
- App glitches almost every few days
- Information is delayed
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- Notifications come hours after car has moved
- Sometimes notifies that car was moved when it wasn't
- App works 20% of the time
- Notifications come in 3-6 hours late
- Half the time it shows location at home when it's clearly not
- Notifications are extremely delayed
- Car has been on the highway in the same spot for a day even after refreshing
- Location is not the least bit accurate
- Does not show movement
- App doesn't even locate my car
- Keeps showing a location from the day before
- App won't show car's correct location
- Shows a location point from days prior and refuses to update
- Tracking worked for one day and then stopped
- Locations are not precise
- Will not update the status of where my car has been
- Won't even alert me when it's moving until minutes later
- Late notifications
- Alerts at 10 pm or later for movement during the day
- Shows current movement from an old route
- Alerts about leaving or returning home are delayed
- Delayed warning on movement
- Fake movement alerts
- App notifies 30 minutes or more after vehicle has been moved
- Constantly showing inaccurate location
- App keeps crashing
- Doesn't keep real time of car
- Often is wrong
- App won't even open
- Freezes constantly
- Thinks we are miles away instead of at home
- Trips, location, fuel level are almost always very off
- Updates location once every few hours
- No manual way to update location
- Constantly get notifications for movement when the car is clearly parked
- Notifications arrive 4 hours after the fact and with the wrong time stamp
- Received movement notifications and arrival notifications with vehicle parked right in front
- App shows no event in the last couple of days and this is inaccurate
- App started out half working, now doesn't register at all
- Location of the vehicle almost never updates
- App only recorded two points after driving all day
- No live tracking
- No way to force request vehicle location
- Geofencing alerts are not sent
- False notifications of movement though vehicle is stationary
- It worked then stopped
- Keeps notifying that car has moved when it hasn't
- Map is not accurate
- Location of car on the app is not correct
- Saying location of car is on a highway and it hasn't had any movement or updates in 10 hours
- App shows the vehicle is still at the dealership when brought home
- When parked it says it's moving and when moving it says it's parked
- When parked at home it will show a completely different location
- No audible alerts on iPhone
- Typical of companies today that they have no interest in hearing my problem and maybe fixing the bug
- False plan info provided
- Benefits included in plan did not work
- Now it's like it won't load from the open screen
- It's a bit off on time vehicle leaves destination
- Not tracking
- Inaccurate Notifications of potential issue
- Received three notifications that voltage readings were below normal, dealer found nothing wrong
- Vehicle shows to be in driveway when clearly not the case
- App shows no event in the last couple of days and this is inaccurate
- Received notification saying battery dropped below voltage, dealership says battery is fine
- Have to 'upgrade' and pay more to see same data and location on App
- No service, emailing for registration code and no contact
- No one to speak with
- Check engine light notifications are unreliable
- The app has no clue where my car is
- Resetting app doesn't fix location
- Very inaccurate location
- This system isn't worth the money, time & headaches
- Coat of monthly service, website hides monthly cost
Requested features
12 requests- Update map data
- Improve real-time location accuracy
- Fix delayed notifications
- Provide clear pricing for upgrades
- Enable audible alerts on iPhone
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- Improve app stability and reduce crashes
- Allow manual location updates
- Ensure accurate vehicle status (moving/parked)
- Address account recognition issues after phone replacement
- Provide better customer support
- Fix bug causing false movement alerts
- Fix bug causing false battery voltage alerts
In-app purchases
TheftPatrol
No in-app purchases
Elo GPS
No in-app purchases
